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Carrie Underwood Continues to Sit Atop the Billboard Charts

May 18, 2012   Todd Rigney
Carrie Underwood Continues to Sit Atop the Billboard Charts

Carrie Underwood, “American Idol” winner and record-selling whizkid, is the queen of the Billboard Album Charts once again. The singer’s latest album “Blown Away” sold 120,000 copies last week, securing her the number one position for the second week straight.…

5 Things Spotify Should Spend All That Cash On

May 18, 2012   John Paul Titlow

Spotify is raking in the money. The six-year-old streaming music startup has only been live in the U.S. for about a year, but it has apparently won the confidence of investors, who are said to be ploughing hundreds of millions of…

Disco Legend Donna Summer Dead at 63: A Digital Tribute

May 17, 2012   Stephanie Haberman
Disco Legend Donna Summer Dead at 63: A Digital Tribute

Donna SummerDisco Legend Donna Summer died early Thursday due to complications from lung cancer.
The five time Grammy winner’s hits include songs such as “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls,” and “She Works Hard for the Money” and “This…

Listen to Mashable’s Facebook IPO Spotify Playlist

May 17, 2012   Todd Olmstead

Facebook officially files its long-awaited IPO Friday. To help the company celebrate, we decided to put together a playlist on Spotify.
Many people are going to make a lot of money when the company goes public with a valuation…

Ryan Montbleau Band Makes Live Webcasts for All — With 2 Mac Apps

May 15, 2012   Todd Olmstead
Ryan Montbleau Band Makes Live Webcasts for All — With 2 Mac Apps

Singer-songwriter Ryan Montbleau has been on the road performing music for much of the last decade. But since January, he and his band have been experimenting with a new format for staying in touch musically with fans.
They’ve been…

Radical! 12 Tumblrs for ’90s Nostalgia

May 15, 2012   Christine Erickson

1. Oh, It’s The 90s

If you’re a fan of ’90s music reviews, this site features write-ups on all of the biggest celebrities via hundreds of scans from magazines like Spin, Q, Rolling Stone and Select.Click here to view…

Counting Crows Releases Album Sampler On BitTorrent

May 14, 2012   Zach Walton
Counting Crows Releases Album Sampler On BitTorrent

I don’t really listen to a lot of rock music anymore these days. I’m more of an electronic fan, but I do remember Counting Crows from back in the day with that crazy CG rabbit dancing around a lady in…

Counting Crows Singer Adam Duritz: Twitter Changed My Life

May 14, 2012   Samantha Murphy

Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz has always been at the forefront of emerging tech trends. He was among the first musicians to start a blog in the mid ’90s — a time when record companies cringed at the…

Counting Crows Shares New Music on BitTorrent

May 14, 2012   Samantha Murphy

The Counting Crows on Monday released a slew of tracks from its latest album to fans on the popular peer-to-peer file sharing platform BitTorrent.
The band — which introduced the album Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our…

Should Celebrities Create Their Own Branded Social Networks?

May 11, 2012   Mashable Video

What’s better than having 1 million followers on Twitter? Having 35,000 followers on your own social network. At least, that’s what Grammy Award-winning producer and hip-hop artist Jermaine Dupri thinks. Dupri started his own social network, Global14, after getting…

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